The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.
B.K.S. IYENGARWhen you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
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Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
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Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature
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It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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